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THE NOTED DIVINE'S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subject ; “A Seraphic Diet.”
~ Text: Man did ... eat . angels . , food. ...
—
1 salms lxxviii., 25.
Somewhat risky would be the undertaking
to tell just what was the manna that fell to
the Israelites in the wilderness, of what it
was made and who made it. The manna
was called angels’ food, but why so called?
.Was it because it came from the plaoo where
angels live, or because angels compounded
it, or because augels did eat it, or because
it was good enough for angels? On what
heaveD crystal platter was it carried to the door of
and then thrown out? How did it
taste? We are told there was in it something
like honey, but if the saccharine taste in it
had been too strong many would not have
liked it. and so it may have had a commin
gling of flavors, this delicacy of the skies. It
must have been nutritious, for a Nation lived
on it for forty years. It must have been
healthful, for it is so inspiringly applauded,
It must have been abundant, because it dis
missed the necessity of a sutler for a great
army.
Each person had a ration of three quarts
a day allowed to him, and so 15,000 pounds
were necessary every week. Those were the
times of which my text speaks, when “man
did eat angels’ food.” If the good Lord,
Who has helped me so often, will help me
now, I will first tell you what is angels’
food, and then how we may get some of it
for ourselves. In our moral state we must
have for mastication and digestion, and
assimilation the products of the earth,
Corporeity, as well as mentality and
spirituality, characterizes us. The style of
diet has much to do with our well being,
Light and frothy food taken exclusively re
suits in weak muscle and semi-individualism,
The taking of too much animal food produces
sensuality. Vegetarians are cranks. Reason
able selection of the.farinaceous and the
solid ordinarily produces physical stamina,
But we have all occasionally been in au
ecstatic state where we forgot the necessity
of earthly food. IVe were fed by joys, by
ships anticipations, by discoveries, by companion
that dwindled tho dining hour into
insignificance and made the pleasures of tho
tablo stupid and uninviting. There have
been cases where from seemingly invisible
sources the human body has been main
tained, as in the remarkable case of our in
valid and Christian neighbor, Molllo Fanch
er, known throughout the medical and
Christian world for that she was seven
weeks without earthly food, fed and sus
tained on heavenly visions. Our beloved
thewonclwa. Prime, editor and
recorded concerning scientist, this girl,
Professor West, the great marveled
over it, and Willard Parker of worldwide
fame in surgery threw up his hands in
amazement at it. There are time 3 in all our
lives when the soul asserts itself and says to
the body: “Hush, stand back! Stand down!”
I am at a banquet where no chalices gleam
and no viar.ds smoke and no culinary 1m
plements clatter. I am feeding on that
which no human hand has mixed and no
earthly oven baked. I am eating “angels’
food.” If you luiva novor boon in such an
BvaltoU ctato, I commiserate your loaden
temperament and dismiss you from this
service as incompetent to understand the
thrilling and glorious suggestiveness of ray
text when it says, J ’ “Man did eat angels’
j 00 j n
Now, what do the supematurals live on?
They experience none of the demands of cor
poriety and -have no hindrance or environ
ment to the shape of bone and muscle anl
flesh, and hence that which may delectate
our palate or invigorate our poor, dying
frames would be of no uso to them. But
they have a food of their own. My text says
so. There may be other courses of food in
the heavenly menu that I am not aware
of, but I know of five or six styles of
food always on celestial tables when cheru
bim and seraphim and archangel gather for
heavenl y repast—the mystery of redemption,
celestialized music, the heavenly picturesque
sublime colloquy, eternal enterprises, saintly
association, divine companionship, celebra
tive jubilance. There is ouesubjeet that of ex- all
cites the curiositv and inquisitiveness
at PMor c,a V q “Whioh
1
tab! His left side? IVhv quit the
anthem of the worshiping heavens to hear
the crooning of a weary mother’s voice? Was
a straw better than a garland? “Could it not
s.SiYSr.’As.r.hCi.S'.s
“How could heaven get along without Him
for thirty-thresiyears?” says angel the third.
“Through inti that assassination may sinful man
rise our eternal companionship,” says
“leaf» wUMialt this side the grave be
and what would we want of the sculptured of
imitation when we stand in the presence the
resurrected original? Fainting will halt this
side the grave because the col0r3 ® a rib
would be too tame for heaven, and what use
to have metured on canvas US y the t scea ? 3 w ^ oh
the participant. n„ One of of .h l b6
teU us about the Last Supp- bettei than
Titian with mighty touch set up m art gallery.
The plainest sain by' tongue will describe the
“Last Judgment better than Michael Angelo
with his pencil put it upon the ceiling of the
Yatican. Architecture will halt this side the
grave, for what use would there be for
tects compass and design in that city which
is already built and garnished until nothing
can be added? A 1 the Tuileries and Windsor
Castles and bt. Clouds of the earth piled aU the up
not equaling its humblest residences;
Bt. Pauls and bi. Peters and St. Izaaks anl
st - 8 ?l’ t ! ias of t! ?? ea riR ?“ e
cathedral not equaling the h.aveiriy temp r .
But musici willi pass right on, nght up anl
right in. and millions in heaven will - m:
knowledge that, under God, she On, I Was the
chief cause of then-sa.vation.
like to be present.when all the great Chris
tiau singers and the great Chnstiau plaverD
of all the ages shall congregate in hea\en.
Of course they must, like aU the rest of us.
be cleansed and ransomei by the blood of
the slain Lamb. Alas, that some of the
great artists of sweet sound have been as
distinguished for profligacy as for the way
they warbled or sang or fingered pedal, the bom. key
board or trod the organ and
who have been distinguished earth. bassos I feel will
pranos L and prima donaason
verQ puVthe -, n< r sons of Moses and the Lam)’.
or lips to the trumpet with sounds of
victory before the throng. Bnt many of the
masters who charmed us on earth will more
mightilv charm ils in heaven. Great
music hall of eternity! May yon and 1
be there some day to acclaim when the
“Halleluiah Chorus' 7 is awakened As
on earth there have been harmonies
made up of other harmonies, a strain of
music from this cantata, and a strain of
music from that overture and a bar from this
and a bar from that, but one great tune or
theme, into which ail the others were poured
as rivers into a sea, so it may be given to the
mightiest soul in the heavenly world t ;
eather something from all the sacred song
we have sung on earth, or which have been
sung in all the ages, and roll them on in
eternal symphony, but the one great theme
and the one ’overmastering tone that
°hali carry all before it and uplift all of heaven pearl
from central throne to farthest gate
and to highest capstone of amethyst will !*». '
••Unto Him who loved us and washed
from our sins in His own blood, and mad
us kings and priests unto God and the Lamb,
to Him he glory’ ’ That will be manna
enough for all heaven to feed on. That wiii
be a banquet for immortals. That wiU be
angels’ food.
Now. in the emen jLI ; i heave . .-*t
the cuf rers and servant.* of the Kiog re
moTt this ourse from th*. ban-i uet and bring
The Hamilton Journal •
on another course of angels’ food, which is
laying lets out of mighty enterprise. The Bible
us know positively that the angels have
our world’s affairs on their hearts. ‘They af¬
ford the rapid transit from world to world.
Ministering spirits, escorting spirits, defend¬
ing spirits, guardian spirits—yea, they have
all worlds on their thought. We are told
they sang togetherat thecreation,and that im¬
plied not only the creation of our world, bnt
of other worlds. Shall they plan only for
our Rttie planet and be unconcerned for a
planet 300 times larger? No. They have all
the galaxies under their observation. Mighty
schemes of helpfulness to be laid out and
executed, shipwrecked worlds to be towed in,
planetary fires to be put out, demoniac
hosts riding up to be hurled back and down,
These angels of light unhorse an Apollyon
with one stroke of battleax celestial. They
talk these matters all over. They bend toward'
ea °A other in sublime colloquy. They have
cabinet meetings of winged immortals.' They
assemble the mightiest of them in holy con
saltation. They plan out stellar, lunar, solar,
constellated achievement. They vie with
ea pK other as to who shall do the grandest
thing for the eternals. They compose doxol
°Jt ies for the temple of the sun. They pre
side over coronations. If in the great organ
oE the universe one key gets out of tune, they
P lan for its retuning. No undertaking is so
difficult, no post of duty is so distant, no
mission is so stupendous but at God's corn
mand they are gladly obtained,
When they sit together in heaven's places,
Gabriel and Michael, the archangel, and the
an S el that pointed Hagar to the fountain in
the desert, and the angel that swung open
the prison door of delivered Peter, and the
an £ e| s who ran to the ro be the reapers at
tho enl1 of tha world, and the angel that
? to °d by Paul to encourage luin on tho
foundering oornship of Alexandria, and tho
an 8 0 ls that sentineled the tomb of
Chirst, Apocalypse and the four angels that St. John saw
in at thefourcornersof theearth,
and the twelve augels that guard the twelve
swinging pearls, and the 20,003 char
mted angels that the psalmist de
scribed, and more radiant than all of
them put together, and mightier than all, and
lovelier thah all, -The Angel of the Coven
au L. the cadences of His voice, the best
music that ever entranced mortal or immor
tal ears. His smile another noon risen on mid
noon, His presence enough to make a heaven
if there were no other attraction I say, when
meet together in the council chambers
close to the throne Ah, that will be regale
ment infinite. Tnat will bo angels food,
And one of my exciting anticipations
oE heaven 13 *ie Prospect of seeing
aad IS ,5? .V.! 9ome o£ them,
Why not? .Vhat . did they come out for on
Eho balcony on that Christmas night and sing
f or communicationwith.us? our world, if tey did not I want to the be put
m know ser
enade was in Greek, but they knew that their
words WJnld be translated in all languages,
,yIL. < '5y thought themselves too good to have
anything to do with us, would they have
dropped Christmas carols upon the shep
herds, as bad as any of us havo ever been?
Aye! If they sang for mortals, will they not
sing for us when we become mmortals?
Now, in the emerald palace of heaven, t
the cupbearers and the b » ' '
move t h < s course fr0 T ®
on another f foume of ange s food-the , last
course and the best, the desert, th 1 c
jubilance. “ laat ‘°“ of You the feast and I which have J'-uown is eelebratiye P®°P
wh °
exaitoa. They have cultivated the ph g
malic. 3 oil never saw them burst ■ > laugh
uever beard them in a of
ter. They are monotonous and to me in*
tolerable. I am afraid of a man or a woman
that cannot cry; I am afraid of a man or a
woman who cannot langli. Christ says in
the book of Revelation that such people are
to Him nauseating and cause regurgitation
—(Revelation ill., 16) Because thou art luke
warm and neither cold not hot I will spew
thee out of My mouth. But the angels in
heaven have no stolidity or unresponsiye
There is one thing that agitates them la
jut 0 b°’]? ™™ th : know tkftt abS .? !t
ty* ** *’ ar l’ ’ 6 bung U P ° n j™,? , , 1 !!,!
of amethyst, they take it down and
deft fingers pull from among
the strings a canticle. They run In to their
neighbors on the cami: golden street aad j”,
tke an y th ' n * u like f.7' s ' those . M* rla with ™ k^there which she oym per
fl ? rm, 'd on *be banks of the Red ben she
flaps ‘^mph, and there is a festal
t ls ab set J® spread, oiiit Wheiiisityit.s al jd the JpflPmnr when a >“ an °r
woman down in the world who was all
agitated? Because they know what a tre
^.e^on^anS takVthe ri^ht e ?oad° Und fr ° m
t ie Itis be
, nnfhlnoYvnMiiislcs between
and a
d '^d A“ d then then their theifterivltv totivity is is catching. catching If li we wo
. ^t’/ a e ^rnUinir (
^Srium tli^undTf „ V onr ’from an
™ happened? M Why * ' th full diapason? ol f est towers Why
‘ f
r-fernitv?” The fact i« mv hearers,
there llre £ p 80p v i e in heaven who would like to
, children there are
wondering when father and mother will
eome into the kingdom, an l with more glee
than they ever danced in hallway at your
com j n % „ home at eventide they Lion will dance
f , h heaven]y ma at the
f of father and mother saved. Be- -
side hat the old fo i k8 wa ut to hear from
Th staadinI? at the head of the
news
f hei p * tayaT3 / have been answered,
Qd tha£ re eoming on to take from
, , dejr ]j ps a kigs better than that which now
they throw you . Calling you by your talking first
i me a3 thev always did. they are
’ il saying, “There is son,”
abollt you a our
of < lThere j„ our daughter down in that
i world of struggle battling,suffering, that sinning, Christ
weepin g_ Why can they not help see and comfort
; 1 j s fbe enlv one who can
| and gav eV” '
That i8 what they are saying about you.
\ nd if you wilt thin hour in one prayer of
, urren d er that will not take more than a
second to make decide this then swifter than
! telegraphic dispatch the news would reach
* and augels of God who fell
the never
would : oia your glorified kindred in eele
( ration, and the caterers of heaven would do
; lh( , jr be; ^ aQd gajnts and ser aphs side by
gide would take aage i 3 ’ food. Glory to God
{Qr SU( , h a p033 ibtlity! Oh. that this moment
t bere might be a rush for heaven!
the Spirit . and . the , Bride r> sav. Come. «
Rejoicing saints re-echo. Come,
Who faints, who thirsts, who will may come,
Tny ^anour bids thee come,
THE MANCHESTER SKIP CANAL
rt ig Secaring a very Small Fart of tlip
Cotton Traffic,
At the half-yearly meeting of the corpora
tion of the Manchester (England ; Ship hitherto Canal
the Chairman said that the canal had
virtually failed to secure anything like a fair
share of the cotton traffic, the canal having
carried within the last six months only 13,600
tons, against 300,000 tons arriving at Livet
pool. The Chairman contended that they
must show the cotton sellers of the world
that Manchester has a powerful association
of buyers who were willing to buy in Man
Chester if the sellers wou id difficulty only send confront- their
cotton there. The great
ing them in the the near future, the he loan said, was capital. the
payment of interest on
After the meeting the shares of the canal
fell heavily,
A Lalforer'i Daughter Inherits 8100,000.
By the death in New York recently of the
Rev. R. B. Crystal, of Atlanta. Ga.. Mins
Bian< he Chapman, of Jacksonville, Fla., tho
daughter of a laborer, inherits *100,000. bhe
is about seventeen years old. The property
is in reai estate in New York and Atlanta,
HAMILTON. HARRIS CO„ GA„ FRIDAY. MARCH 22.189.1.
FARMERS’ COLUMNS.
THE C.EOKGIA EXPERIMENT STATION,
EXPERIMENT GEORGIA.
Further Extract* From Bulletin No. 87,
Recently Published.
YABIETY TEST OF COTTON.
[BY Director R. J. Redding.1
Fifteen varieties were planted in
competition with each other. The test
was made on a two acre section of third
■years land which had been in corn the
previous year. The general yield it was
not so large on this fresh land as was
in the variety test of the previous which year, is
showing that even this land
exceptionally well adapted to cotton, of
did not equal the productiveness which the the
very old land on test was
made the year before.
By comparing these results with
those of the previous year, as far as the
same varieties were planted both years,
it will be noticed that there is a con¬
siderable change in the order in which
the loading varieties stand. This sus¬
tains the remark heretofore made that
one experiment, rule, determine or one years with test, exact¬ can¬
not, as a
ness which is the best variety, or meth¬
od. or anything of the kind. 1 repeat
just what was said in Bulletins Nos.
20 and 24 :
“It was not the aim to test every va¬
riety of cotton for sale by seedmen.
Many of the so-called varieties are
substantially identical with others,
differing only in name, ltis not unusual
for one enterprising grower of seeds
to cultivate a good variety for several
years, and then offer seed of it under a
new name (usually including his mild own
personal name). This justified species tinder of the
fraud can only be
plea that the original variety has been
changed and improved in some impor¬
tant respects. it may be well tore
mark, as lias been done before, that a
variety test confined to one season is by
no means conclusive, when the differ¬
ences in yields are small. One may be
a small, dwarfish variety, and require
narrower rows or closer favorably planting than
another, and eaeli be or un¬
favorably affected by the weather con¬
ditions prevailing at of the that period particular most
critical in the growth
variety. early variety of cotton
A very ma¬
tures the greater part of its fruit
during July and August, and is practi¬
cally independent of the weather that
may prevail in September and October.
These remarks apply in the present
experiment to those varieties which
show a larger comparative second pickings; yield of
cotton at the first and
and in general, tlieir truth has been
illustrated during the past four years'
experiments with varieties in the fact
that no one variety has uniformly
given best results.”
The large table in Bulletin No. 27 is
here divided into three sections, each of
which explains itself.
Table i. Section i
FERTILIZER FORMULA. 8* , g*S*gS*5
Per Acre. ! gi , , ,
' ”! ■»• 71 —
Acid Phosphate........ Potash..... 168 Lbs r y
Muriate of 39 “ & o <51 71 n
Nitrate of Soda........ 130 " a
Total.... $7 631 | <;j f S -S III Si; Yield.
Cost per acre . -.......... Sis
Names ot Varieties. E Si ■/. S g - ; £! =. : Total
.
S 4 i 5 I 0 I 7
■
Truett'sImproved..............l07ro57. .Tolies' Improved......... i.W; 527 j 7 « >:L5ti3i,ur>ti 55 *t 2 . 0 M
r
Kinn (T. .I.).....................;517550MS :Lo i .wo
Dearing's Mnm'th Small Seed! Doll ........ Prolific .l20tii525;.5S4t32'L749
Duncan's 1111500,Ms t«3j,722
Hunnieutt's Choice......127 ishibo.iCh iron
Knfght'sIuqsSm.'seedPxoUflc Ellerbe’s Prolific..............I08381-«i«st» 1^472,1575 two.617
1.614
Hates' Improved ‘NoName”. Prolific....... 50;:M2flt)7111,1.57:1
Brooks' ...... 1 ,?■!?,
Jones ■ ■ Wonderful ’ ...........113:152484517,1 4(ki
The above section shows the fertili¬
zer formula used, the names of the
several varieties of cotton, the yield of
each variety in pounds of of seed cotton
per acre, at each the four pickings,
and the total yield of seed cotton. The
varieties are placed in the relative or¬
der of their respective total yields.
Table 1, Section 3.
;
Cotton. one ? Cotton & i £,"
s in \2
3 Seed Seeds Seed Acre—Pounds.
of of Pounds .£
Names of Varieties. Pound Number t
H 9 102112
Jones' Improved.. .. CO 3.28ft 31.21 6281,386
Truett's Improved .. 593,44831 0 6071.352
King (T. J.)........ 934.50434 1 0411.240
I Jicknon \s • •. .............. 90 4. J 6630 4 5401.238
Hearing s Small Seed..... 824,58735 5 6201.129
Duncan's Mam. Boll Pro. 603.27831.4 5411.181
Hunnieutt's Choice...... 768.62339 5 5191.184
Kllerbe s Choice. 773.95232 2 5221,099
Knight’s Imp. Sm. S. Pro. 985,26333.1 5351.082
Kllerbe * Prolific . 744.13832 ? 52! t .093
Bates' Imp. Prolific...... 844.87837 5 590 983
Brooks ' No Name”....... 824,54531.7 4941.065
Ellerbe’s 'Big Jumbo’’........ Stalk '. 824,00032 813.84632 6 4981.031
Hawkins' 9 489 997
Jones Wonderful’. 703.70329.5 4221.041
In section •?, is shown for each varie¬
ty. the number of bolls to the pound,
the size of the seeds, the yield of lint
per hundred pounds of seed cotton, and
the total yield of seed per acre.
Table 1, Section 8.
per per Seed
y4 cents cents = 'C
at » lb at Lint £
Lint Seed of
Value S5
of Pound. Bushel. i
of <
i Value Value Total
Names of Varieties.
i I 4 i n IH
Jones Improved............ 6
Traett’s Improved........ 6
King (T. J.) 6
Dickson's............ 6
Hearing's fernail Seed.. . 5
Duncan s Mam. Boll Prolific 5
Hunnicutt’s Choice 5
gUeirt*S Choi.ce 5
ilerSe Prolific’ ^ 5
k improved - 5
Bate, Prolific.. 4
Brooks' No Name 5
Kherbe's Dig stalk**.----- 5
Hawkinn' Jumbo^ 4
Jones' orKlerfu. 5
Section -i. above, gives the value of
the total yield of lint per acre, of each
variety, the value of the seed and the
total value of both, estimating the lint
at 5 cent per pound and the seed at J5
rents per bushel.
r i]je following table shows tho char
aetvr >tks of each of the fifteen varie-
ties, including' actual given yield. These
characteristics ave in order of
merit, or supposed merit: for instance:
No. I, in each of the columns 1 to 9, in¬
dicates that the variety excels in the
characteristic at the head of the col¬
umn : No. 2 next, and so on. In col
nmn 5 it is assumed, for simple conven¬
ience, that the quality of yielding a
large percentage of lint to the cvvt. of
seed cotton, is meritorious, and the
scale is arranged accordingly, the va- of
riety yielding the largest percentage
lint rating No. 1 in that column. Bo in
column No. 7, small size, or “smallness’
of seeds, is assumed as a point of merit,
and Knight’s improved small seed
stands No. 1. However, it is by no
means admitted that excellence in ci¬
ther of these respects is desirable—is
really excellence. A careful study of
table' No. T will prove interesting and
valuable, as showing that there is no
close correspondence between size of
seed or yield of lint per cwt. of seed
cotton and the yield of lint per acre.
If a variety of cotton “more than thirds
itself,” i. c. if it yields more than
pounds of lint per cwt. of seed cotton,
it is by no means an indication that
such variety will yield the largest re¬
turns of value per each acre planted.
Table No. 7.
Sliowimr the Characteristics of Each of Fifteen
Varieties of Cotton in the Order of
Relative Merit.
Rank in Seale ot M.rit.
HIT Plants. Product—Linti
itiS >
a P.:£ £ig -
farletles. Height of " o sLR ijl! •si's Total
i:~3 vf verage J nonof) Earliness. of Seed.
s Value and
f 7 r I TV ,
1 « 13 |4 5 O j7 ,8 9
Jones’ Improved... ...4,07 (feet) — _ l -r.FD-rtbTrixi'tta yv-j.
King’s (T. J.)......... . ..'3.80 faaejs-gjg-cg a 3
Truett’s Improved.. •4.12 — w
Hearing’s Dearing's S. S. Seed Seed. . 4 08! * zc 4
Bates’ Imp. Prolific. . 4.05! ■i! ii 5
Dickson’s Prolific... .4.18 -i ic iv r>[ o
Duncan's Mum. Pro. . 4.07 OD® f> ii 7
Knight's T Imp.: —" u S. H ° 14 4.05; AKi 0 £T' 1 3 8
. .
Hunnieutt's t'hoice.. .14.43 7 i ■; i:
Ellerbe’s Choice......'4.58; '5.081010 8 •r ti! 10
EJlerbe’s Prolific.... ft
Ellerbe’s ’ Big Stulk ' 4.8512 1313 « X Hi 12
Brooks’ -No Name”. 4 47131211 9 13
Hawkins' ‘ Jumbo ’. . 4.5914 J4 14 ri 2 »! 14
Jones’ Wonderful”.. 5 331511512' >c = 15
It will be readily admitted that that
variety is most produce valuable the to a farmer
which will largest return
of valuable products. Now examine
the table. Notice the numbers in col¬
umn No. 0, which represents the order
in which the several varieties stand in
regard of the total value of the seed
and lint produced per acre. This be
in^ the tho most vakictiws important and put significant III
ttomt, the aro uovVil
Table No. VII in order of their
merit in this respect.
Note some remarkable features:
Jonti’s Improved of seed stands as follows: In
total yield cotton, 1st: in total
yield of lint, 2nd; in yield of seed, 1st;
in large size of boll, 2nd; in earliness,
4tli ,and in value of total products, 1st.
But in yield of lint per cwt. of seed cot¬
ton, .Jone’s Improved it stands Uth and,
in smallness of seeds is 14th, its seeds
being next to Duncan’s (which lias the
largest). King’s Improved comes close
up to Jone’s Improved in value of total
products, its large yield of lint to seed
bringing it to second place. In this
test earliness was a Tho, very King important ole
ment of success. cotton was
the earliest and 1 ost a smaller proportion
h Y the fall frosts. The King is also of
rather a small size, as shown in column
lfl. table 0, or column 1 in table 7. It
^quires, or will admit of, a little closer
planting than most other varieties.
In regal'd to the yield of lint per cwt.
and the size of the seeds, the relation
seems pretty constant; the larger seeds
being associated with the smaller per
eentage of lint. The same istrue in re¬
gard to the size of bolls and size of
seeds, large bolls being associated with
large seeds, small bolls with small
seeds, and medium bolls with medium
seeds. Other interesting comparisons
may be made by one who closely stud¬
ies Table No. 7 in connection with Ta¬
ble No. II.
CONCLUSIONS.
It is hardly necessary to announce
any formal conclusions, since each va¬
riety speaks for itself in the tables giv¬
en. It may be remarked, however, in
favor of the small-seeded varieties, and
those that yield qualities a large percentage of
lint—these two in generally be¬
ing associated the same variety—
that they are better suited to thin or
moderately fertilized soils, since they
make smaller drafts on the soil; while
the larger boiled, larger seeded varie¬
ties are perhaps for better strong adapted liberally for
high culture, or
manured soils.
Doubtless the station will receive
many inquiries for that seed have of one or more
of the varieties been tested
above. In anticipation of such inquir
ies. it should be stated that we cannot
undertake to supply seeds, chiefly be¬
cause of the very small quantity of
each variety: and, secondly, because of
the fact that the varieties were all
grown on two acres, rows alongside therefore of
each other, and the seeds
cannot he relied on as pure and un¬
mixed. Inquirers of dealers are referred and to the
following list growers,
of whom these seed were obtained:
Jone s Improved. .1. F. Jones, HogansvlUe. Ua.
King’s Improved J. H. Alexander ft Co., Au¬
gusta, Ga.
Dunean's Mammoth Boll Prolific. Murk VV.
Johnson Seed Co., Atlanta. Ga.
Dearing's Small seed, J. .’. Hearing Coving¬
ton, Ga. Hawkins Nona.
Hawkins’s Jumbo, H W. Ga.
Kllerbe's Choice. C. A. Kllerbe, Hag aod. S. C.
Ellerbe s Big Stalk. C. A. Ellerbe. H agood, S.
f'. Ellerbe,
Ellerbe s Prolific. C. A. Hagood S. C.
Knights Improved Small Seed. W. O. Knight,
Sandersvilie. Ga.
Brooks No Name” S. E. Brooks, Washing¬
ton. Ga. W.
Truett's improved. G. Truert. EaCrange.
Ga.
Bates's Improv <■'! prolific R. Bates Jackson
Station. S. C
Dickson's Prolific. Capers Dickson. Oxford. Oa.
Hunnieutt's Choice Prof. James B. Hunnlcutl,
Athens. Ga.
Jones s Wonderful J. Hurt Jones Herndon,
Go.
A Test of Florida Soft Phosphate on Cotton
The object, of this test was to find
whether * Florida Soft Phosphate”
could be used in place of acid phos¬
phate. in compounding result showed, a fertilizer for
cotton. The as conclu¬
sively as one experiment “Florida Soft may prove Phos¬
anything, that
phate" cannot take the place of acid
phosphate: nor doei its action compare
even favorably with that of acid phos¬
phate. Headers are referred to the full
details in Jlulletin No. 27.
•Natural Plant Pood.**
Certain parties are attempting to sell
a form of "Florida Soft Phosphate.’’
under the name of ’“Natural Plant
Food.” Farmers ere a^ain cautioned
to beware of “Natural Plant Food,” so
called. The Hon. R. T. Nesbitt, Com¬
missioner of Agriculture, permitted informs be sold me
that it cannot be to
in Georgia under such name.
Fertilizer Formula tor Cotton.
The experiments for several years
past on the Station farm indicate that
on the soils of middle Georgia a fertili¬
zer for cotton should contain about the
following proportions of the t hree val¬
uable elements:
Available Phosphide Acid............ 3
Potash .. U
Nitroi-rn 8
It is by no means essential that there
shall be just 10 per cent of phosphoric
acid, or just 3 but per what cent each is meant of potash is this
and nitrogen: the of
that whatever others percentage phos¬
phoric acid the should be pres¬
ent, in the mixture in the proportions
above given. For instance, if a fertili¬
zer contains 12 per cent of phosphoric
acid it should contain 8.6 per cent each
of potash and nitrogen ; or perhaps it
would be should simpler contain to say that much a cotton
fertilizer as pot¬
ash as of nitrogen and about 3 Si times
as much phosphoric acid as of each of
the others.
These relative proportions would be
supplied by tho following formula :
Formula No. 3.
Acid Muriate Phosphate........1,000 Potash......100 pounds—cost pounds f fi.00 3.01
of cost
Cotton meal 700 pounds cost 0.30
1,800 pounds cost $14.34
This would cost about 80 cents per
hundred pounds, or $10.00 per ton. It
would analyze about as follows :
Available ....... .... 8.00 per cent
Potash (BO).... ... . 2.80 per cent
Nitrogen......... ... .15.75 per rent,
SWEET POTATOES.
[By HUGH N. Stahnes, Horticult urist.I
The following* brief summary of Bul¬
letin 2.5 (November, 1804) on the above
subject, covers all of the more import¬
ant points. The conclusions are based
upon the result of two years tests with
fertilizers, though made most the of the ot her
tests were only remembered that past the season. order
It must be
of liable yield given changed in the variety test is
to be although by another it is year’s
experimentation, that radical variation will not
probable and in any jrerveral the
appear, a way same
order will be maintained.
fertilizek.
1. A compound of 820 pounds acid
phosphate, 800 pounds kainit, cotton in seed all. menl
and 040 pounds 1,820
pounds per acre, costing*, approximate¬
ly, SI 1.80, secures the best results. Pos¬
sibly the amount of kainit—in Middle
and North reduced Georgia—could be advanta¬ though
geously in the pine region to 400 it should pounds, be main¬
tained at the figure first is given. preferable
2. Cotton seed meal to
nitrate of soda as a source of nitrogen
(ammonia.) preferable muriate of
3. Kainit is to
potash as a source of potash.
4. Florida soft phosphate appears to
be equally as valuable as acid phos¬
phate, the difference, if any, being
rather in its favor. This shows that
the sweet potato is decidedly indiffer¬
ent to phosphoric the acid other in any form,
compared with all of the elements phosphoric of
plant food, since
acid in soft phosphate is in an insoluble
form when first applied. condition
5. The finely is pulverized objection of
soft its phosphate rendering it a great extremely difficult to
use,
to handle without loss. There is not a
sufficient difference in price between
the two forms of phosphate to render active
soft phosphate acid at phosphate present un unless the
competitor ascertained to results emphatic
were more,
in its favor.
MISCLI.I.ANEOliH TESTS.
1. /{fdi/c Cult lire. This pays if the
season is a wet one. It does not pay in
a dry summer. On the whole it is not
recommended; level cull lire is prefer¬
able.
2. I’iiulihin lliui.- periodically Pinching during or pru¬
ning the vine the
summer is a deleterious practice and
should lie abandoned.
:i. LoohiiiIiiij I ’inn. Loosening the
vines along the middles during the sr:i
son to prevent them Possibly from rooting
is also injurious. in a very
wet year it. might prove beneficial.
4. IHetwur. Four foot rows and
eighteen inches in the row is still ree
commended as the proper distance for
setting draws oi slips.
5. Huiihllny Sllpx. Putting two slips
or draws to the hill appears to produce
more potatoes, but the result needs
confirmation.
VARIETY TKHTH.
The fol]cm'inj, r i- s the order of yield
ascertained for thirty-three varietiea.
This order, as previously change explained is
liable, of Course, to from sea¬
son to season:
Yield per Acre in Hush.
Order. Variety.
Market- Small. Total,
able.
1 White St. Dornlngo. 339 381 9
2 Shanghai or Cal .. 32 7 .1 2 :t74 3
3 Boone’s White.... 312.0 I 341 4
4.11ayman.......... 313 ft 4 340.3
5 Early Golden 244 8 3 309 I
6Tennessee Yam 231.5 501 5
7 Boone's Red.... . 246 7 i 276 ft
8 Norton......... . i £09 9 5 253 I
9 y Peabody....... rea 211 8 8 249 6
10 Red Nose..... 182 4 # 241 0
11 Red Nansemond, Ka 204.2 236 3
12 Southern Queen. Ka , 200 1 « 234 4
13Black Spanish. •Ml :i « 228 8
14 Red Nansemond. Kan 162 6 227 H
15 Bermuda Red.. 175 8 0 226 8
16Orleans Red (Choker; 208 0 7 225 7
17Southern J7?wnitnern Queen. Kan \\ 152 2 4 213.6
18 White Nansemond 130 4 4 208 8
19 Brazilian l yum 171 i 1 203 2
20 Big Stem Jeraey. I ft 1.2 I 200 4
21 Yellow Yam . 156 9 0 190 ft
22 Ye J low Jersey .. Wi 9 0 WO 9
23Tlcotea JIT 2 8 189 0
24 Pumpkin Yam 160 7 188 9
25 Heckler Yam 128 6 4 17! 0
26 Vinelesa. Tex. 144 6 3 173 9
27 Yellow Nansemond 115 3 7 172 0
28 Jersey Sweet......... 118 9 * 164 3
29Spanish Yam..... 138.0 8 158 8
30 Spanish Bunch ...... 130 4 4 156 8
31 Bar ba*l oe* ...... 90 7 - 128 5
32Georgla Yam. 86 0 t 118 I
33Strashurg......... 83 2 8 103 0
The heaviest yielder The thus appears to he in
While Si. Domingo. best potato
point of quality is the OeurgUt Yum. but
it is unproductive. The best combina¬
tion potato is probably the quality Tenneaaee and
Yum. It is of excellent
quite productive. It may be obtained
from the John C. Kucher, lif S. ISroad
street, Atlanta. Ga.. Oer/iylu Yum,
Pumpkin Yum. (trlruna Hui (Xiijijei. Kil¬
ler) and White St. Domhujo, can be
bought at almost any country store
in Middle or Southern Georgia.
John Jlridgewater, Mt. Juliet,
Tenn.. can furnish lluiuh Yum. SIuiiuj
hui, lied .Vow. Yciiotr Yum, liermudn
lied. Simxliurij and Southern Queen.
Hu rip Ooidrn can be bought from F.
Ilarteldes A Company. Lawrence, Kas.
The other varieties listed have been
picked up from various sources not
now ascertainable. 'I he Georgia Lx
oc» linen t Station has only a small
amount o* each variety and is unable
to supply the public.
FIRE INSURANCE!
Best Rates
Ami prompt settlement in
case of loss by fire.
Apply at this Office.
VOL XXIV. NO. 12.
THE REFORM GLBB.
0UE3TION8 WHICH IT 18 ASKING
ITS 2000 MEMBERS.
Will the Great Organization Declare
for Proo Trade, as Did the New
England Club and the Minnesota
Democrats?
Tlie Reform Club, of New York, has,
since 18S7, (lone great, work for tariff
reform. Its Tariff Reform Commit¬
tee, of which Mr. Wallace Macfarlano
is Chairman, has recently addressed a
circular letter to the 2000 members of
the club, asking for opinions and sug¬
gestions as to what should be the fu¬
ture work of the committee. “The
committee,” says the letter, “now so¬
licits a frank expression of opinion on
the policy to be pursued in the future
prosecution of the struggle." Con¬
tinuing, tho letter says:
“In order to concentrate your con¬
sideration of tliu matter upon tho ma¬
terial points, nttontiou is directod to
three suggestions, each of which has
supporters. We shall seek to state
each, in tho language of its own advo¬
cates.
“I. One sootion of tariff reformers
maintain that the tariff of 1894, with
all its defects and disappointments is,
after all, au important advance to¬
wards tho abolition of protection, and
that, in view of the industrial de¬
pression and tho disturbed and uncer¬
tain condition of tho National finances,
any further agitation j of tho tariff
question at present would Vie unwise.
In opposition to this view it is urged
that very active work will bo needed
to bold oven what we have gained by
the act of 1894. There is an obvious
probability that a determined effort
will soon bo made to overthrow (the
tariff of 1891 and restore McKinley
rates.
“II, It is maintained by others that,
while tho tariff of 1891 does contain
aomo important concessions to tariff
reform, these nro only useful as lend¬
ing up to muoh move radical changes,
which must bo made boforo it can be
satisfactory or evon tolerable to thos*
who boiiovc in tariff taxation as the
host moans of raising public revenue,
but condemn its use for private profit,
in any degree. Therefore, it is argued,
wo should continue our work as active¬
ly as practicable, not only to bold
what lias been gained, but in order to
secure, as soon as possible, a ‘tariff for
rovenue only.’ large number of
“III. But b our
friends insist that tho action of Con¬
gress, in 1893 and 1894, shows cun
clusivoly that in working for mere
tariff reform, whether by seeking to
tjecut* moderation in protection, ot a
tariff for revenue only, wo aro striving
for that which, •' ovon if it is not wholly
undesirable,. i • i i IS wiiolly t n„ unattainable.
They maintain that, in this country, a
purely rovenue tariff is impossible;
ii,ot that li.,, the attempt utt Am,,t tn to vnnlivn l oalizo it it leaves leaves
members oi Congress hopelessly coil
fused in ft labyrinth of counts,
weights, values and rates Every Con
grosHinan is subjected to local picssuio
to obtain tea percent, more on this
and ten per cent, more on that; to
have this duty specific and that ad
valorem. No member lias the export
knowledge of oven ft considerable
numbei ot sutijects ftK that tnat, wm will enable enanio
him to meet and overcome the specious
arguments presented by the parties
directly J interested. Tho argument of
comparative 4 .” injustice • m lnnuontjal.
Why should A. havo higher rates than
13 and 13. than O. ? Agreement be
comes almost impracticable except on
the ba»l# of giving everybody what
lie wants. Tariffs are, there
fore, finally prepared on tho ‘/roc
lunch basis, as one Menator has
cynically and accurately (loseri hod the
jirocess in 1898-4. Mauy believe,
therefore, that the time has come to
throw aside all compromise with logic,
all temporizing with truth. If we be¬
lieve in free tiade, they say, let us say
so. Let us doclare against all tarifls.
The issuo cannot, then, be confused.
Wo shall always know who is with us,
who against us. If at first wo
lose in numbers, wo shall gain
enormously in strength. As a mat¬
ter of course, if these viows should
bo accepted, National revenues would
be raised by direct taxation, to the
extent to which they aro now derivod
from duties on imports.” circular letter
fn conclusion the
gays that “neither tho club nor the
Tariff' Committee is committed to anj
owe of these different views. Tho com
mittee desire ii^iit. Wo are anxioni
to know what our associates in over>
part of the United States think we
should now do. Wo therefore earnestlj
request full aud explicit expression!
of opinion upon these questions, front
every member of the club.”
Bounties Are Unconstitutional.
One good thing may come about ai
a reuulfc of McKinleyism which McKin¬
ley an*l big friemls <li*l not anticipate.
It has always been maintained by th*
opponents of protective tarifi dutiei
that .they were unconstitutional, ex¬
cept where “protection ’ wa.4 au in
cidentof a tax laid for revenue, Bnl
the court*, while holding that Con
gress has no fight under its taxing
power to take money from one max
for the eole purpose of paying it tc
another, have refused to say thai
duties intended to ba protective to th?
point of prohibition are not, what
their titles import, revenue duties.
The payment of bounties to sugar
producers under the provisions of the
McKinley tariff act presents tho prin¬
ciple of protection in its naked form,
so that the courts may reach it. There
is no doubt that if the sugar bountj
claims shall be pressed to u final de
termination in the Supreme Cour,
they will be disallowed, on thegrount
of the uucoustitutionality of the lav
authorizing the payment of bounties
VM M VI » • ▼» -»
BILL ARP’S LETTER.
OUR DAYS OP HAPPINESS SEEM
TO BE PEW,
And Neglect of Worthy Deeds Mak<»
Thom Less.
How many happy days does the average man
or family—a woman see in and a his year? Suppose half we take a
man ivi fe and a dozen.
children—how many real happy days do they
s'o, not counting children under twelve year*?
I was discoursing my friend Mcr'" r about it
and ho said that while traveling in Lu» -c. ^
with his wife and throe children, botwoen Al¬
teon ami twenty-one, ho madu a bargain with
himself and them to keep a tally sheet and give
each , no iv black mark who in any way marred
(lie during happiness of the family or any member read¬ ot
I I the day. Tho proposition was
ily assented to by every one and the rules laid
down wore that no uukind word ho spoken by
one to another -that there should be no com¬
plaining about tilings that oonld themselves—no not. he avoided
or that could ho remedied by
fault finding in a querulous way, no tardiness
in coming to meals, no delay in gotting ready
for church or for tho cars or the diligenoe or
any journey! no forgetting and having to go
back or tend hack after it. My friend, the
pater familias, wus to ho the judge of any in- *
fraction of these rules and if lie broke any one
of them himself Ills wife should be tho Judge.
“Now,” said he, “wo kept that tally sheet
fair anil square for 120 days and I havo it now
put away as a kcopsake. How many days do
yon suppose passed in thOBe four months
without a mark? Guess how many?” “Did
quired. tho mark of one mark course," the whole said day?" “The I In¬
“Oh, yes, of he.
offense or neglect of one member of a family
i ff 'Cts the happiness of all. I don’t moan that,
it destroys the peace of all, but it mars their
perfect happiness. Of course it is lawful
and permissible for tlio wife or the daughter
to forget her parasol or her gloves |to or some tho
message she wishos to leave
servant, and this for a minuto
stopi the procession, but it must he
admitted that it would have been hotter, a lit¬
tle better, hail slio not forgotten, and so the
black mark had to conic. “Were you koep
ing home or hoarding during this time,” said
I. “Boarding.” said ho, “end visiting from
pltco to place.” “No little children to their tear
tlieir olothes or stump sahi tlieir toos or blow
noBc?" “None,” he. “No Bervant Dinah
to break tho china? No neighbor's cow or long
nose sow to raise a row? No duns or debt* to
make you fret? “None,” said ho. “Well, 120," you
ought to havo hail about 100 days solemnly, of th* “we
said 1. “Well," Baid my friond, be¬
illdent have but four-only four, aud I
lieve that my wifo and my children are bettor
then the avorage, hut in spito of ourselves
there was something went wrong almost every
day. SnppoHe yon try it at your house?"
‘ Don’t think 1 will,” raid I. “I havo so long
enjoyed Uiobo littlo miseries that I am afraid I
would be unhappy without them. It iB un
n asonsble to expect a heaven in this sublunary
life. My habits are fixed and I’m too old to
li tie miseries that I'm afraid I would b* good
experiment for young people to make, Tho
poet »a;, s:
“Count that day lost whose low, descending
sun
Hues from thy hand no worthy action done."
The more worthy actions the more liappi*
nt-as. A century or so ago tliero lived a very
nfUn d to rivo every man and wife a
flmh of Laoon who would come boforo
hila *';d mlemnly deolaro they had not saiiVan
unkind word to eaou other during the year,
A ml they note to bo continued in their atate
ment h.y some morning proof from tlieir neighbors,
Christnn« brought moat all these
poor [, I (manta to the great ball where the lord
oId lliB ,. om . t . H om« nw to claim tho flitch,
l,ut more oamo out of onriosity to aeo a mau
ami wife who had not quarreled for a year. A
a bi *
l none were allowed
mind ( 0 raino deceiving hogs an bo «ome of tho tenants didn’t
tho old lord to get It. J)uth«
vt,r y «1»\ wd and examined them lik® a,
WH *u‘"a ZX
con. At lust one old couple came wlio stood
tho test and gave the proof and tho old lord
gave Judgment In their favor | and there was took a
K amollK ()l „ „ ( . op e aa ,i they
the old nmn and his wife upon (heir shoulders
an l carried them all around the caetle ringing
»J'd “liouttng goc® that ax for they w hundred marched years along. this The cus
tom wuh kept up among the old lords’ degeeud
ants uud no counlo over got tho baoon «avo
those who hud been married at least thirty
perfectly L7gtfSslo^'ni.M other. SecZl don’t
reconciled fo each Home
quarrel, but they pout, six! that in the worst
—
.
How very, very sad in the room
VVh ro love, domestic love, no longer ncslles."
Tbr n it is that the man takes to drink or to
the clubhouse and tho woman to morphine.
My wife Tampa tot k a notion a few lady days friend ago to run her
over to with a young as
chaneron. They crossed the hay from 8t. Pe
lersourg smooth amt had and a lovely the passage, for beautiful. the wa¬
ter was mornings
They took in alJ the sights on the main streets,
including the museum of suak'8 and other
tropical creatures and then went over to lunch
at the wonderful Tampa Bay hotel. Bhe was
charmed and delight* d with tho wdnders and
beauties of that grand institution, fiheln*
spected (very square Inch of the ground floor
and talks gushingly about the paintings and tells and all
statuary aud vases and ornament-4
about, the people, tho guests, tho rich folks, the
proud and the vain, Iho okl and the young, the
English and American slid Spanish aud the
band that discourses sweet music. Ab “Ob, it was
so flue and so grand,” she said. >ut 3 p. m.,
they took the b mt to return but the sky was
OVercasfc end the wind came up arid the bolt
rocked and by the time it neared the wharf my
wife was very » ck an I her bosom mad heaved, sign. but
she kept her own secret and J no
They had to go down some steep little s‘ejjs
and along by the hmi iH to (he gangway and
th* n she surrendered and eric I for help. The
captain, n.ito aud j >1 >t and deck hands all
hurried to her side and gently helped her down.
“Hold on to me,” she said in despair ng tones.
“Hold to me or 1 wiii f *11 on the boiler. Oh, l
am so sick.” And they w re kind. “Oh, fo
kind,” she says, and safely they asiisted her on
to the wharf aud into tire car that was waiting-
4 Oh, what a relief to get out of that and into
that car,*’ she said, “I have seen Tampa and
the grest hotel and l »m glad of it, but I will
never go that way again if I live a thousand
years. For the last hour it was p ;rfect agony."
But she is all right now and ere this letter goes
to press will b! basking in the sunshine of her
old home in Georgia—that is if the sun is ever
going to shine up there aga n«—Bill Arp in At¬
lanta Constitution.
Receiver’s Attorneys.
The record of the appointment of
Messrs. Payne ft Tye, of Atlanta, Ga.,
as attorneys to the receiver of the old
Western and Atlantic Railroad Com¬
pany has been filed by the dork of
the United Stntcs court. They succeed
Mr. Jnlius L. Brown, the account of
the severance of whose relations with
the company he represented published. so many
years, has already been
A Certified Copy Filed.
Judge Stack at San Francisco decid¬
ed to allow the executors of the estate
of ex-Senator Fair to file a certified
copy of the will in place of the lost
document.